The next day, was the start of school for all the students. The news of Hershal's defeat had even spread to the students who didn't bother coming to watch the game. It caused the online video to be passed around the whole school. This, of course, led to the creation of a third fan club for Scarlett.
The VSW club now had a pretty big following in school but there were generally three supporting camps. Dan's was mainly filled with girls who had been following him since he played sports. No matter what Dan did they would follow and support him. The newest camp was Scarlett's.
Scarlett without even realising it was quite popular around the school already. Not as someone who was overly beautiful or good at anything but because she treated everyone the same and nicely. Whenever you needed help, she would always say yes. Now that they had seen her trying hard in the game, it caused many people to turn into hardcore followers.
And finally, Ashley's following which was the biggest out of the three. Ashley was only a first-year student and hadn't talked to many people before. She was always the quiet type and always went home but after seeing her two amazing matches in both games, students couldn't help but admire her skill.
It also led to her father's dojo gaining popularity which made Daiki very happy. He didn't regret letting his daughter play the game a single bit.
Sadly though, this made Novis and Alex feel a little left out of the whole thing. While the situation truly annoyed Novis, he knew he couldn't be mad at his teammates. While Alex couldn't be sad for long as he was coming closer and closer to his goal.
At the start of the day, all the students in the school were asked to meet in the gym for an assembly. No one had any idea what this was for. Everyone was currently sat in the stands staring at the principal. The principal was a female named Young, although she looked very old.
She was currently holding a microphone in her hand and once everyone was seated and settled she started to speak.
"Everyone, first I would like to invite the VSW club members to come up here with me."
Suddenly, everyone turned to look at the members who were sitting down. They all felt embarrassed as they got up to join the principal. The students cheered out their names as they walked past.
"As you all know our team has been Successful in entering the quarter-finals, this is a first for Montem school."
Mrs Young then pressed a little device that she held in her hand and the video of their match started to play on a projector behind them. If a single student hadn't already seen the video, they had defiantly seen the video now.
After congratulating the team and finishing the assembly with some announcements, the students were told to go back to class apart from the members of the VSW team. Once everyone had left Mrs Young came up to them to make an announcement.
"I've got some great news for you guys. The media company Tick are sending their reporters to come to school tomorrow and interview you. Now I don't need to tell you, you need to represent the school well."
Noivs felt a bit annoyed by the principal's comments but didn't say anything. The school hadn't supported the VSW club in the slightest, they hadn't even given them a coach. All of their success so far had nothing to do with the school, it was all because of Alex and the school was trying to take all the attention.
When Novis got to speak to the reporters he would be sure to tell them everything. Even though Novis knew he wasn't getting the recognition he deserved, he felt like Alex was missing out on most of it and didn't even seem to care.
The team went back to their classes and the bell Rang signalling it was time for the end of the day but before they were free to head home or head to their club classes, the students were given their termly test results.
Before the teacher had given Novis his test back, Novis was silently praying. When he opened his eyes he shouted.
"YES!"
Scarlett quickly came over to see what Novis was all excited about.
"What did you get?"
Novis lifted up his piece of paper to show the score of 44. Scarlett's face quickly dropped.
"How on earth could you be so happy about a score like that?"
"Hey a pass is a pass, if I studied, I know I could do better, this is what I got just from listening in a class all day."
Scarlett sighed. She herself had gotten an 82. The school's results went like so. Anything above 40 was considered a pass, then each grade bracket would go up in tens. 50, 60, 70 and then finally anything past an 80 was the top score you could get. Even if a person got 92 it would still count as the same grade a someone who got an 82.
"I wonder what the others got?" Novis said staring at his score.
Ashley had received a 55. She wasn't much better than Novis, as she was always too busy training in the dojo and never had any time to study. Dan got 78. Dan was just one of those types of people that were naturally gifted at everything. If he studied maybe he would have got an even higher score.
And finally, there was Alex's score. When Alex received his test paper his body wouldn't stop shaking. His eyes were fixated on the number in the top. When everyone had left the classroom to go home or to their club. Alex had stayed sitting down in his chair staring at his paper.
He had gotten a score of 86. Now most people getting a score like this would have been over the moon but not Alex. This was bad. Alex was dreading going home to his parents, as it might be the last time, he was able to play VSW ever again.